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1 day ago · For the 75th Academy Awards, Gangs of New York was nominated as an original screenplay despite being based on the book The Gangs of New York because the writers based the film on the book's historical research but largely invented the characters and plot. [1] .
15 hours ago · The 1940s saw a wartime development of viewer interest in dramatic adaptations of ancient literary works, including RKO’s critically lauded film adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s 1931 play cycle Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), directed by Dudley Nichols, an updated version of Aeschylus’ tragic Oresteia trilogy set during the American Civil War .
3 days ago · The Oscar-nominated screenplay (by Dudley Nichols) is more contemplative than most ‘50s oaters, and although Perkins seems out of place in a Western setting Fonda more than compensates with an assured performance, with Betsy Palmer, John McIntire, Lee Van Cleef, and Mary Webster in support.
5 days ago · Lang’s version was adapted by Dudley Nichols of Bringing Up Baby fame, who received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work. The paintings featured in the film (including an iconic one of Joan Bennett as Kitty) were painted by John Decker.
2 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
3 days ago · Based on a 1937 short story by Dudley Nichols, this is the tale of a group of strangers on a stagecoach as it travels through Apache territory.
3 days ago · Captain Clifford Nichols 1890 – 1917 . Image: Captain Nichols (supplied by his family) Clifford Nichols was born in Harborne, Birmingham in 1890, one of four children born to Joseph Nichols and his wife Emily. He was educated at Dudley Grammar School and King’s Cathedral School, Worcester before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1912.
